Should panels of experts audit websites to identify the ones that supply reliable information? (Image: Don Hammond / Design Pics Inc. / Rex Features)
SPEECH, drawing, writing, mathematics, printing, photography, telegraphy, film, radio, television, internet: each of these represents a seminal stage in the history of information transfer and a quantum leap in power and range. The gaps between stages have shortened from millennia to decades to years as the curve depicting the speed of development rises ever more steeply.
The extent to which the internet will change human society and experience is still unclear, although many of the changes…
